On the day of the review, Li Dingguo was embarrassed and embarrassed.

Since the beginning of the day, he has been ruthless in training, carrying a stick with him, and if any of the thirty-five recruits under his command are not serious, or they can't remember the password and can't distinguish the left and right recruits, they immediately greet him with a stick.

As a result, the second recruit couldn't stand it and fought with him in the martial arts arena.

The recruit was a head taller than him, but he couldn't beat him, Li Dingguo probably held back a lot of breath, and the recruit was full of injuries.

Then, the recruit was first locked up in the Three Black Rooms, and then sent to the mine to mine after the three.

Rushing into the official is purely self-inflicted.

Li Dingguo was also locked up in a dark room, because the attack was too heavy, Qin Chuan also postponed his training deadline by one day.

Taking advantage of that opportunity, Qin Chuan also gathered all the recruits and affirmed the four words "military orders are like mountains".

He also called all the senior officers together for a meeting, and repeatedly warned them that if their soldiers were disobedient, they could be beaten, and they could be punished for running in circles, but they should be measured and suffer a little, and they should not hurt their muscles and bones, and they should not be beaten for no reason, let alone abuse and abuse the soldiers.

If there is a violation, it will be dealt with by military law, and all generals and officers will be treated equally.

After that, there were a lot less screams on the martial arts field, and there were more recruits who ran laps and did push-ups.

After Li Dingguo came out of the black room, his thirty-four recruits no longer dared to look at this instructor who was only fourteen years old, and he no longer dared to be sloppy during training.

Li Dingguo practiced two more times, from morning to night, and finally passed Qin Chuan's test.

Those thirty-four recruits don't have to go to the mine to mine, and Li Dingguo can finally raise his head and be a man.

Qin Chuan thought that after this incident, this son should be able to make progress.

But I didn't expect someone to expose him

The whistleblower was soon brought in, a man in his early twenties, not tall and not strong, as soon as he entered the room, he first knelt on his knees, kowtowed to Qin Chuan three times, and nodded to the various battalion officers next to him with a sneer.

"You want to expose Li Dingguo's collaboration with the enemy?" Qin Chuan asked a little impatiently.

"Lord Hui, there is evidence of Li Dingguo's collaboration with the enemy in his hand, right here."

With a smirk on his face, the man took out three booklets from his bosom and handed them in front of him with both hands.

A red-clothed attendant stepped forward to take the booklet and put it back on the coffee table beside Qin Chuan.

"My lord, these booklets belong to Li Dingguo, and the things on them are all written by him himself, as well as those pictures, which he also painted."

"I also saw him sneaking into your military training, and while looking at it, he wrote something in the notebook, and he also drew for half an hour to write and draw against the gatehouse of Mengjiazhuang."

"My lord, I heard that Li Dingguo is the righteous son of the Eight Kings of Thieves, will he be connected with the Eight Kings, and those pictures are drawn for the Eight Kings?"

Qin Chuan picked up a booklet and asked, "How did these booklets get into your hands?" ”

"Go back to my lord, and I will be able to take it out after Li Dingguo is familiar."

Qin Chuan didn't ask, only opened the booklet in his hand and took a closer look.

Then he flickered slightly, and then flipped down again.

Not long after, he picked up another booklet and continued to flip through it.

The man kneeling on the ground did not dare to disturb him, but only looked at him with an eager face.

Not long after, Qin Chuan finished reading the three booklets, and asked the man kneeling on the ground with a strange face, "What are you calling the horse?" ”

"Horse Four."

"Matthew? Why does this name sound so familiar? ”

"My lord, the person who was sent to the mine to mine a few times ago with a military stick is called Ma Desan." A red-clothed attendant whispered in Qin Chuan's ear.

"Oh." Qin Chuan suddenly realized, "Ma Desan is your brother, right?" ”

"Hui sir, he is...... 's brother. ”

"No wonder."

Qin Chuan handed the three booklets to Wang Jizong next to him, and then said to Ma Desi: "These booklets are not evidence of collaborating with the enemy, but Li Dingguo's analysis of war cases and training experience." ”

"Huh?" Matthes froze.

Luo Daniu on the side slapped his thigh fiercely: "Well, how could Li Dingguo's son collaborate with the enemy, it turned out that he was falsely accused by a traitor like you." ”

Ma Desi was so frightened that he trembled, and hurriedly lay down and kowtowed: "My lord, no, I don't dare, I don't dare, I beg my lord to die." ”

As soon as Qin Chuan wanted to do something, he saw that Li Dingguo had already arrived outside the door.

"Just in time, come over and see if these things are yours." Qin Chuan beckoned to him.

Li Dingguo entered the house, first clasped his fists at Qin Chuan and the others, and then frowned and glanced at Ma Desi, who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.

"My lord, those three booklets are indeed mine, and I wonder why they disappeared this morning."

Qin Chuan smiled: "Because this guy thinks that you are writing and painting on the booklet in order to collaborate with the enemy and sell military information, so he stole the booklet and exposed you."

Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment, and then snorted angrily: "Despicable person, you have long held a grudge against me because of your brother's affairs, and now you dare to slander me?" ”

"I don't dare, I know it's wrong, I beg the adults to talk about it."

"Ahem."

Qin Chuan cleared his throat and said: "Li Dingguo's collaboration with the enemy is nothing, Ma Desi stole Shangguan's property, pulled it out to play 20 boards first, and then sent it to the mine for mining. ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sparing your life."

Ma Desi kowtowed like garlic.

Two red-clothed attendants carried him out, and soon the sound of sticks and screams could be heard.

Qin Chuan stood up and said as he walked out: "Da Niu, you and Li Dingguo will work together to pick out all the useful things in his three booklets, recompile them, and then let people copy a few more copies, and in the future, the Wutang will use these materials to teach." ”

"Huh?" Luo Da Niu was stunned.

"Let you know a few more words, now you have a headache, right?"

Qin Chuan walked out by himself, and when he passed by Li Dingguo's side, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Do it well."

Walking to the door, he suddenly stopped and turned around, and said to Wang Jizong: "Mingzhao, we have to open a bookstore to print books, otherwise you can be exhausted to death by hand copying, you find someone to be responsible for this matter, you have to get it out as soon as possible." ”

"Yes."

……

After leaving the official hall, Qin Chuan first went to the gun factory and the gun factory for a turn, and then took the red-clothed attendant out of the village to see the excavation of the moat outside the village.

Mengjiazhuang is ready to expand, to expand the distance of 200 steps forward, to build a total length of more than one mile, with six horse faces of the city wall, to first use the plate to build rammed earth, with the soil taken from digging the moat, first build an earthen wall, then two bread bricks, the bricks to use the Qinchuan plan to burn the internal combustion red bricks.

This is a big project, and it will not be done in a few months, mainly because the rammed earth is very time-consuming.

Then Qin Chuan went to the road that was being built not far away.

Most of them are building reservoirs and cultivating farmland, while a small number are building roads and city walls, and they are also transferred to repair brick factories and cement factories.

The so-called road construction before getting rich, Qinchuan plans to repair the three main roads connecting Jingle, Lanxian and Lou Fu first, mainly widening, straightening, and leveling, and in the future, the road surface will be hardened.

He was planning to make cement, and now there is asphalt, the tar obtained from coke is distilled, and the rest is tar asphalt, which can be mixed with stones to pave roads, although it is worse than petroleum asphalt, but now the road is only used for walking people and mules and carriages, and the requirements are not high.

It's just that he only has two coke dry distillation kilns, and it takes half a month to produce one furnace of coke, and the output of asphalt is naturally very low, and if you want to use it to build roads, you have to save for a long time.

After turning around the road, Qin Chuan rode his horse in the direction of Montenegro.

The area around Montenegro has become a type of industrial zone, with coal yards, iron yards, two iron-smelting blast furnaces, and a coal retort furnace.

Yan Sanqi taught a group of iron-smelting craftsmen in the gun factory, and he no longer needs to be stationed in the gun factory for a long time, and he has been in Montenegro these days.

There are many limestones on a hill five miles east of the Black Mountain Iron Works, and the cement factory is located under this hill, and the plots have been sorted out.

Qin Chuan actually doesn't know much about cement, he only knows that it is burned, the main raw materials are limestone and clay, it seems that there is gypsum, you can also add cinder, iron slag, etc., grind it into powder and mix it together according to a certain ratio, and then pile it in the furnace to calcinate, the higher the temperature, the better.

After burning, it is crushed and ground into powder to become cement.

The difficulty he faced was the ratio of raw materials, so he had to explore for a period of time, throw all the raw materials of various proportions into it and burn them, take them out and grind them into powder to see which quality is good.

There is no technical problem, now the blast furnace of the iron yard can burn molten iron, such a high furnace temperature should be enough to burn cement.

The biggest problem is smashing stone and grinding, limestone is a very hard thing, you have to smash this thing into gravel, and then grind it into powder, these processes are hard work.

There is not enough flowing water in the mountains to make use of water conservancy, and the steam engine or something is even more puffy, so it can only be stored by manpower.

He and Yan Sanqi discussed it many times, and finally decided to build a few elevated bridges, make a hammer like pounding rice, use the principle of levers to pound stones by manpower, mash them into gravel and throw them into stone mills, and grind them into powder with animal power.

Qinchuan does not have any requirements for the initial output of this cement plant, as long as he can find a way to fire cement, he can immediately increase the furnace and other facilities, and quickly mass production.

With cement, he wanted to get rebar.

When the time comes, the bricks of the Mengjiazhuang city wall have to be built with cement mortar, which can save a lot of glutinous rice, and the female wall above will be poured with reinforced concrete, and the Hongyi cannon will not collapse.